The Republican National Committee on Friday approved a watered-down resolution designed to deal with a demand by conservative committee members that candidates agree to support a list of conservative positions as a condition of receiving financial support from the party.

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Public university presidents received their smallest pay increases in four years, as schools responded to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

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An airport in Iran’s capital of Tehran was the intended destination for a North Korean weapons shipment seized in Bangkok on Dec. 12, according to a confidential report to the United Nations Security Council by Thailand’s government.

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An American man detained by North Korea after purportedly entering the communist country illegally has sought asylum and wants to join its military, a news report said Saturday.

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Long before Osama bin Laden, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal, was the most famous terrorist of his era, bursting onto the scene with a hostage-taking of 11 OPEC oil ministers in 1975 and feeding his fame with more bloody attacks in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered two state agencies to investigate a rash of birth defects that have confounded impoverished Kettleman City for more than a year.

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A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt at a restaurant popular with Iraqi security forces on Saturday, killing at least two people, authorities said.

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Colin Shepherd, a U.N. transport manager, had a sense of deja vu walking into Afghan Fried Chicken.

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Alderman John Eagleton concedes that initially, the notion of Tulsa being the perfect spot for the 2020 Summer Olympics is “belly-laugh funny.” Eagleton and businessman Neil Mavis are among a small group of Tulsans discussing the possibility of their city following Atlanta as the country’s next Olympic venue.

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The 37 1 /2 acres of diamond-hunting fields at Crater of Diamonds State Park turns into a greenish-brown muck on rainy days that repels all but the hardiest of visitors.

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